In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you … - Arnold Haultain

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In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

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About Arnold Haultain

Theodore Arnold Haultain (3 November 1857 – 11 June 1941) was a British writer. He was for many years secretary to Goldwin Smith in Toronto, writing a memoir and acting as literary executor after his death. His book, Hints for Lovers, was a limited edition, dedicated to his daughter Emma.

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Alternative Names: Theodore Arnold Haultain
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Nature's lessons are hard to learn. Harder still is it to translate Nature's lessons to others. Besides, the appeal of Nature is to the Emotions; and words are weak things (save in the hands of a great Poet) by which to convey or to evoke emotion. Words seem to be the vehicles rather of ratiocination than of emotion. ... If, in these pages, there are scattered speculations semi-mystical, semi-intelligible, perhaps even transcending the boundaries of rigid logic, I must simply aver that I put in writing that only which was given me to say.

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